While WILBing around during office hours today, I happened upon a Times opinion piece that calls into question the Obama administration’s verbal distancing from the Bush reign of (war on) terror. In the midst of a bunch of domestic turmoil, it helpfully reminds those of us in the U.S. about the continuation of wars and occupations under new names. It reminded me of a cab ride the band took this past January in Hamburg. Our Turkish German driven, upon discovering we were from the United States, asked our opinions on the election of Obama, and then cut in with something like, “Obama is the same as Bush. For Palestine, Obama is the same.”
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